FotoJet - A Review - Off the Wall Friday

Focus Function used

The Before

Recently, I was approached by FotoJet to give  a review of their photo editing site. Although the site can be used free,  they graciously gave me a year premium subscription to try out their editor and see what I think.  Since, after upgrading to Windows 10, I have not been able to find a photo editor to my liking, I agreed.  The photo editor that comes with Window 10 is totally useless to me (although I'm sure other's will disagree).

Now first a word about my editing.  I do have Photoshop Elements, but to tell you the truth, I don't find it user friendly enough.  What I was looking for was a good photo editor that you could easily crop a photo, adjust the exposure and coloring of it, and once and while add a special effect or two.  Photoshop Elements was not intuitive enough for my casual use and I was constantly reminding myself where everything was.

Photo Editing and Filters used

The Before

FotoJet is definitely intuitive and really you don't need a tutorial to use it.  It has all the normal cropping abilities as well as  slide scales to adjust exposure.  The color adjustment also works on a sliding scale.  I absolutely love the Sharpen and Dehaze adjustments too.  There are plenty of filters, too (even more with a premium membership).

A couple of weeks ago, I paid a visit to the Erie Art Museum, to see the latest exhibit.  As always, I had my little point and shot camera.  I took some pictures so I used them to play around with editor.

 So far, what I liked

• Ease of Exposure and Color editing
• Where the OPEN and SAVE buttons are
• How easy it is to resize a picture
• The gorgeous  overlays and filters
• The many fonts in the TEXT mode

What I don't like

• No space to save on the site - photos need to saved to your hard drive
• You have to work on one project at a time from start to finish 
• the Auto Enhancer wasn't really helpful ( but really are any of them?) 

Color Splash and focus functions used

The Before

This week I only have tested out the Photo Editing Feature.  It also has an extensive collage and design section which I want to play with.  Over the next few weeks, I was thinking of giving my blog
a nice spring makeover.  I hope the results are as good as this week's!!

So if you are looking for an online photo editor that is easy to use, I would recommend FotoJet.

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